Not that I think their move was effective in any way other than to expose their own ignorance, anorexia is so far off the deep end of crazy that I really doubt the girl's self-esteem will be shattered by it. This is, at worst, like kicking a guy when he has the flu. It might feel awful, but it's hardly a killshot.

Girls getting pregnant in high school sure is contagious. Early in my junior year of high school a girl got pregnant, shortly after a couple of her friends also got knocked up and it just cascaded from there. By the time I finished my senior year at least a dozen girls had gotten pregnant. Looking back, maybe I should have used condoms more.

The Evil That Lies In The Hearts Of Men:Girls getting pregnant in high school sure is contagious. Early in my junior year of high school a girl got pregnant, shortly after a couple of her friends also got knocked up and it just cascaded from there. By the time I finished my senior year at least a dozen girls had gotten pregnant. Looking back, maybe I should have used condoms more.

I don't know how it would've made a difference. You have to have sex for the condoms to matter.

The Evil That Lies In The Hearts Of Men:Girls getting pregnant in high school sure is contagious. Early in my junior year of high school a girl got pregnant, shortly after a couple of her friends also got knocked up and it just cascaded from there. By the time I finished my senior year at least a dozen girls had gotten pregnant. Looking back, maybe I should have used condoms more.

Seeing as the US is pretty much the last major nation on the planet to not use metric(Myanmar is holding out too I think), we really don't have room to complain about the UK's continued adherence to the 'stone' as a unit of weight measurement.

the_vegetarian_cannibal:Yeah great job, school. This move will surely help to strengthen her already fragile self-esteem.

I'm not sure what this makes me, but I'm getting tired of perpetually having to "fix" someone else's problems. Basically, we're supposed to constantly walk on egg shells and not do, say, or think anything that might affect someone else's "self esteem". If a stranger can either tear you down or build you up based solely on a few choice comments (bad or good), then maybe the problem is you.

would make sense if she was one of those "pro-ana" nutjobs. But if she had a problem and got better, it seems like she'd be a good influence on the other students, not a bad one. Assuming she stays better, that is.

The Evil That Lies In The Hearts Of Men:Girls getting pregnant in high school sure is contagious. Early in my junior year of high school a girl got pregnant, shortly after a couple of her friends also got knocked up and it just cascaded from there. By the time I finished my senior year at least a dozen girls had gotten pregnant. Looking back, maybe I should have used condoms more.

The school denied she was banned, but said she should wait until she was well enough to attend school full time. While that also seems stupid, it's differently stupid than what the parents are claiming, and as long as they treat all sick children with equal heartlessness, her case isn't newsworthy.

ReverendJasen:GBB: 6 stone? WTF is that?How many smirglins in a stone?

14 lbs. So about 28 smirglins, or 98 smurfs.

Or in Murrican units, it's very much in the "dear gods, get that girl a sammich, and not one of those weird British ones which only has cucumbers in it". (84 lbs, which is well in the "too damn skinny" category unless she's in fourth grade or something.)

Great Porn Dragon:ReverendJasen: GBB: 6 stone? WTF is that?How many smirglins in a stone?

14 lbs. So about 28 smirglins, or 98 smurfs.

Or in Murrican units, it's very much in the "dear gods, get that girl a sammich, and not one of those weird British ones which only has cucumbers in it". (84 lbs, which is well in the "too damn skinny" category unless she's in fourth grade or something.)

dragonchild:the_vegetarian_cannibal: This move will surely help to strengthen her already fragile self-esteem.

Not that I think their move was effective in any way other than to expose their own ignorance, anorexia is so far off the deep end of crazy that I really doubt the girl's self-esteem will be shattered by it. This is, at worst, like kicking a guy when he has the flu. It might feel awful, but it's hardly a killshot.

That's not how mental disorders work.

Honestly if that was my daughter and she was that close to graduating from a private school. I wouldn't be sending her back from the hospital back into the same social situation that assisted her in getting there.

So a school decides that they don't have the resources to deal with a students mental disorder and tells the mother to send her daughter to one that is better equipped to handle it. What is the problem with this? That is what the mother should be doing in the first place. Just because you took care of the physical problems that manifested from the girls mental disorder doesn't mean that she is mentally sound, and instead of trying to put her back into that school to keep up the appearance that she is normal, she should be trying to find some place where she could get some long term help.

ongbok:So a school decides that they don't have the resources to deal with a students mental disorder and tells the mother to send her daughter to one that is better equipped to handle it. What is the problem with this? That is what the mother should be doing in the first place. Just because you took care of the physical problems that manifested from the girls mental disorder doesn't mean that she is mentally sound, and instead of trying to put her back into that school to keep up the appearance that she is normal, she should be trying to find some place where she could get some long term help.

Broken people seem to have the attitude that the rest of the world should put everything else on hold and attend to their particular problems. Victimology 101.

Nick Nostril:"In the headteacher's eyes, she may well have inspired copycat disorders. "

They teach that to the girls? I wondered where they learnt it.

Yes, there will be faux copycats, called "wannarexics", but most of those girls will never be anorexic; they just want to be thin, or to get attention. They'll maintain full control of what and when they eat, how many calories they eat, etc., and can stop the disordered eating just as quickly as they started it. They may lose some weight, but they're not sick.

True anorexia isn't really contagious, though there is evidence that there's a genetic component. I even read one study that suggested a link between high-functioning autism--with its OCDs and obsessions with numbers and routine--and anorexia.